Nuclear Responsibility - Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power

What does it mean to be a responsible nuclear power in 2025? As strategic competition, and indeed great power competition, reemerged in the late 2010s and early 2020s, competing nuclear states increasingly employ the language of nuclear responsibility to label a strategic competitor as an irresponsible actor on the international stage. However, there remains a lack of consensus on what responsibilities nuclear-weapon states are assigned while other states and scholars argue that the possession of nuclear weapons can never be responsible. In Nuclear Responsibility: Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition , the editors Todd C. Robinson and Stephanie A. Stapleton have asked a broad range of nuclear scholars and policy practitioners to answer the question, "What is nuclear responsibility?">

About the author

Todd C. Robinson is Associate Professor of military and security studies with the School for Advanced Nuclear Deterrence Studies at the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB.

Stephanie A. Stapleton is a research scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses and a PhD candidate in international conflict management at Kennesaw State University where she focuses on nuclear policy issues.

Product details

• Authors: M Dee, Todd C Robinson, Stephanie A Stapleton
• Assisted by: Todd C. Robinson (Editor), Stephanie A. Stapleton (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9781666969955
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-995-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, International Relations, Energy industries & utilities, Nuclear issues, Energy resources, International economic & trade law, Nuclear Power Industries, Public international law: energy and natural resources